^{page 342 note 1} Onjango, the men's house for sitting in and eating in, the place where guests are received.

^{page 342 note 2} Ngandi, So-and-so, any name may be put in the place of it as the occasion requires.

^{page 342 note 3} Lit. ‘to want or to wish’, but really it means that which is described in the passage following.

^{page 342 note 4} Kalungi, addressed to more than one person, if to one person they say Kalunga. Formerly this was the title of a king and appears to have meant ‘death’. The first king of Wambu was Wambu Kalunga.

^{page 343 note 1} Lit. ‘if the girl's eye is dead in the young man’.

^{page 343 note 2} Akome, term of endearment.

^{page 344 note 1} Written by the Portuguese ‘Selles’.

^{page 344 note 2} The formal statement is addressed as though it were a gauntlet, saying to it, Lie there, and it is called Tambuisa ulonga, to cause to take up the gage.

^{page 345 note 1} The official chaperon, lit. The-one-who-carries-on-the-back.

^{page 345 note 2} Expletive indicating disgust.

^{page 346 note 1} Etevo, fine for bad manners or breach of etiquette.

^{page 346 note 2} Tiapi, tiapi.

^{page 346 note 3} Lit. the brides.

^{page 347 note 1} This is a fine long decorated girdle, worn by married women.

^{page 347 note 2} Lit. the brides.

^{page 347 note 3} The plural of onjango.

^{page 348 note 1} Maid, page, to assist with wood and water and to carry food to the onjango.

^{page 348 note 2} Lit. marriage.